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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Are Consistent Batters Easier to Project than Inconsistent Ones?

By , 09:03 PM

In another thread, where we were discussing Nate Silver’s (BP) interview on SOSH, I mentioned that I thought that the notion that players (like Pierre) who had consistent historical stats were “easier to project” was hooey.  I may have been dead wrong!  Check out this (admittedly incomplete) study I did the other day.  I am lost as to figuring out what is going on and why the results.

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